19 Victoria Street, Kirkwall

Circa 1810 with later alterations, (see Notes). 2-storey and attic, 5-bay rectangular-plan, asymmetrical house with long elevation to street; shop at ground to left. Harled with ashlar dressings. Plain margins to windows; architraved doorways.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: stop-chamfered and shouldered doorpiece with cast date, initials '17 RMK MM 43' and central heart motif; part-glazed timber panelled door; window at 1st floor above. Architraved doorway with date and initials, 'WC 1855 MB' at ground in bay to left of centre; window at 1st floor above. Window at each floor in bay to outer left. 3 evenly disposed window at ground in 3 bays to right of centre; 2 evenly disposed window at 1st floor above.

N (SIDE) ELEVATION: 2-bay: window at ground in bay to left; non-aligned window at 1st floor; attic window above. Attic window in bay to right; gablehead stack above.

S (SIDE) ELEVATION: 3-bay, grouped 1-2. 2-bay gabled block to right: enlarged shop window at ground in bay to right; window at 1st floor; attic window; gablehead stack above; window at 1st floor to left. Window at 1st floor in bay to left.

12-pane timber sash and case windows with top-hung upper lights. Grey slate roof; stone ridge; stone skews; decorative rope-scrolled skewputts; thack-stanes; harled, corniced and coped gablehead and ridge stacks; uPVC rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: converted as modern shop at ground to left (S); unseen elsewhere, 1998.